Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENEMany a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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